Best Short Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated short games.

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Little Nightmares Take on the role of Six, a lone child lost in a massive metal vessel known as the Maw, surrounded by dangerous, distorted versions of adults. You’ll need to do your best to escape in one piece or your fate will be worse than you ever dared dream.

Price -84% 3.22€
Rating 9.3
Release 27 Apr 2017
Scanner Sombre Scanner Sombre is a 3d horror cave exploration game where darkness is your greatest foe. Illuminate the unseen with your LIDAR scanner, revealing the eerie beauty and peril of the abyss. From the creators of Prison Architect, this immersive adventure uses light and shadow for a haunting experience.

Price -88% 0.85€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Apr 2017
I Expect You To Die Test your problem-solving skills in this virtual reality escape-the-room puzzle game. Play as a secret agent armed with telekinetic abilities on a mission to stop Zoraxis, an evil corporation with plans for world domination.

Price -28% 16.59€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Apr 2017
Batman™: Arkham VR Experience Gotham City through the eyes of the World's Greatest Detective in an all new Arkham mystery.

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 25 Apr 2017
Nephise Begins Nephise Begins tells the player what happened at the time before Nephise was an orb collector. The main setting is forest again, but this time without snow, instead a more sunny and foggy weather.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 24 Apr 2017
What Remains of Edith Finch What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Price -88% 2.38€
Rating 9.4
Release 24 Apr 2017
aMAZE 2 aMAZE 2 is a straightforward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.

Price -75% 0.51€
Rating 8.1
Release 21 Apr 2017
Full Throttle Remastered Originally released by LucasArts in 1995, Full Throttle is a classic graphic adventure game from industry legend Tim Schafer, telling the story of Ben Throttle; butt-kicking leader of biker gang the Polecats, who gets caught up in a tale of Motorcycles, Mayhem and Murder.

Price -89% 1.69€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Apr 2017
The Search Embark on a journey of discovery and inspiration in The Search - a story-driven puzzle-adventure set in a mysterious world where art comes to life!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Apr 2017
Fibrillation HD Immerse yourself in an adaptation of an old story about Ewan Berrington.

Price -60% 2.03€
Rating 8.2
Release 11 Apr 2017
Zup! Zero Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Apr 2017
The Franz Kafka Videogame An original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 6.3
Release 06 Apr 2017
Sweet fantasy Visual novel. Young and pretty nymph Pumpkin fell in love with her mistress.

Price -46% 2.73€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Apr 2017
Blackwood Crossing Blackwood Crossing is a story-driven first-person adventure game. An intriguing and emotive tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings, Scarlett and Finn. When their paths cross with a mysterious figure, an ordinary train ride evolves into a magical story of life, love and loss.

Price 15.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Apr 2017
Dawn Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Mar 2017
Oik 2 Casual physics puzzle

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Mar 2017
Nephise Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Mar 2017
aMAZE aMaze is a straight-forward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.

Price -82% 0.37€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Mar 2017
DED DED - a game in the shoot'em up genre. Your granddaughter has been kidnapped, and your daughter and son-in-law murdered. Having just bits and pieces of information about the abductors, you will have to save your granddaughter and find the masterminds behind these crimes.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Mar 2017
Four Last Things Four Last Things is a very silly pythonesque adventure made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.

Price -76% 2.36€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Feb 2017
Zup! 4 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 Feb 2017
The Mooseman You are the Mooseman and you have the ability to see all that is hidden to the mortal eye. You are about to visit three layers of this universe - the first one is the Lower World where dead reside…

Price -75% 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Feb 2017
Hidden Folks Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Feb 2017
Oik Casual physics puzzle

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Feb 2017
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 Feb 2017
Leaving Lyndow It's Clara's last day on the island where she grew up. She needs to complete preparations, visit her favorite places, and say her goodbyes before leaving on a journey she may not return from.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2017
A Normal Lost Phone A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.

Price -85% 0.44€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Jan 2017
Zup! 3 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Jan 2017
Milkmaid of the Milky Way Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an award-winning point-and-click adventure game in rhyme that combines a gripping story with puzzles and exploration. What happens when a young milkmaid sees an alien craft in a fjord in 1920's Norway?

Price -70% 1.76€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Jan 2017
Super Blue Boy Planet SBBP is a 2D platformer with pixel graphics. Blue boy’s girlfriend is kidnapped by aliens so he goes through 21 levels to save her and he also fight bosses along the way.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 16 Dec 2016
Her Majesty's SPIFFING Her Majesty's SPIFFING is a quaint graphic adventure game following the exploits of Captain Frank Lee English and his trusted regional accented colleague, Aled, as they travel through the cosmos in search of planets to claim for a new Galactic British Empire!

Price -85% 1.90€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Dec 2016
Zup! 2 Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Dec 2016
Alicemare Alicemare is a somehow familiar yet totally unique adventure game infused with subtle hints of horror, created by △○□× (Miwashiba) using the WOLF RPG Editor.

Price -60% 1.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 21 Nov 2016
Silence Can you save Silence, the grim, but also serene world between life and death? Can you help Noah find his little sister Renie in this suffering world? Can you bring her home? Explore Silence and join the siblings on their adventurous journey.

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Nov 2016
One Night Stand After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?

Price -31% 2.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2016
VOI Do you think 1 + 1 = 0 is correct? So what do you think about "black + black = white" statement?

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Nov 2016

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